Frances Gateward is Professor of Film Studies at Ursinus College. She is the editor of Zhang Yimou: Interviews and coeditor (with Murray Pomerance) of Where the Boys Are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction
Frances Gateward

Part 1: Industry Trends and Popular Genres

1. Korean Cinema after Liberation: Production, Industry, and Regulatory Trends
Seung Hyun Park

2. Christmas in August and Korean Melodrama
Darcy Paquet

3. Storming the Big Screen: The Shiri Syndrome
Chi-Yun Shin and Julian Stringer

4. Timeless, Bottomless Bad Movies: Or, Consuming Youth in the New Korean Cinema
David Desser

Part 2: Directing New Korean Cinema

5. Scream and Scream Again: Korean Modernity as a House of Horrors in the Films of Kim Ki-young
Chris Berry

6. Forgetting to Remember, Remembering to Forget: The Politics of Memory and Modernity in the Fractured Films of Lee Chang-dong and Hong Sang-soo
Hye Seung Chung and David Scott Diffrient

7. Reflexivity and Identity in Park Chul-soo's Farewell, My Darling
Hyangsoon Yi

8. Nowhere to Hide: The Tumultuous Materialism of Lee Myung-se
Anne Rutherford

9. Closing the Circle: Why Has Bodhidharma Left for the East?
Linda C. Ehrlich

Part 3: Narratives of the National

10. Waiting to Exhale: The Colonial Experience and the Trouble with My Own Breathing
Frances Gateward

11. Crossing the Border to the "Other" Side: Dynamics of Interaction between North and South Koreans in Spy Li Cheol-jin and Joint Security Area
Suk-Young Kim

12. Race, Gender, and Postcolonial Identity in Kim Ki-duk's Address Unknown
Myung Ja Kim

13. Transgressing Boundaries: From Sexual Abuse to Eating Disorders in 301/302
Diane Carson

14. Taking the Plunge: Representing Queer Desire in Contemporary South Korean Cinema
Robert L. Cagle

List of Contributors
Index